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2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Arrowroot \Ar"row*root`\, n. 1. (Bot.) A west Indian plant of the genus {Maranta}, esp. {M. arundinacea}, now cultivated in many hot countries. It said that the Indians used the roots to neutralize the venom in wounds made by poisoned arrows. 2. A nutritive starch obtained from the rootstocks of {Maranta arundinacea}, and used as food, esp. for children an invalids; also a similar starch obtained from other plants, as various species of {Maranta} and {Curcuma}. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: arrowroot n 1: a nutritive starch obtained from the root of the arrowroot plant 2: white-flowered West Indian plant whose root yields arrowroot starch [syn: {American arrowroot}, {obedience plant}, {Maranta arundinaceae}] 3: canna grown especially for its edible rootstock from which arrowroot starch is obtained [syn: {achira}, {indian shot}, {Canna indica}, {Canna edulis}]
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